Thursday, May 16, 2013

Gérard Depardieu won't be a earning a single dollar for playing a Dominique Strauss-Kahn type in the movie Welcome to New York (the movie's trailer), which is based on the DSK scandal in the the Big Apple's Sofitel. He's doing it for the pleasure of working with Abel Ferrara.

Photos from the New York set appeared in The Daily Mail (merci à Duncan) recently, as the French movie star as the Russian movie star and the rest of the crew reenact the media storm surrounding the sexual assault trial in the company of Jacqueline Bisset co-starring as his then-wife, the French TV reporter Anne Sinclair.

In an interview with Swiss Television RTS last year, Depardieu revealed he agreed to play the part because he found his fellow countryman 'arrogant and smug', adding: 'He is very French. I will do it, because I don't like him.'